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court will take a recess, as I see mamma is pre-
paring to pour out tea.”

Thus did this kind father and uncle endeavour
to improve his children in a cheerful, pleasant
manner, correcting at once their faults of language
or manner, and their worse faults of temper and
fecling. He was often deeply pained at a display
of vanity and selfishness in Lucy, which made her
always anxious for praise herself, and jealous of
any praise bestowed on another. These faults in
Lucy had increased greatly during the last year,
a part of which she had passed away from home.
Her absence was caused by a severe illness, from
which she suffered the summer before Mary’s
arrival in New Youk, and which left her so feeble
that her physician advised that she should travel.
To travel at that time was scarcely possible for
Mr. and Mrs. Lovett, and they gladly accepted
the offer of a friend to take Lucy with his own
family to Saratoga. She spent some weeks with
these friends at the Springs, and afterwards at
Niagara. At both these places Lucy met with
thoughtless people, who, amused by the silly, af-

fected airs caused by her excited vanity, were